Q6600 to PII 955 Worth It?

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#1 Timbury
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Hey guys just looking for a little bit of help on this, my current specs are -

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (Overclocked @ 3.0GHz)

4GB Corsair XMS2 800MHz RAM

P5K Premium Motherboard

Now i've been looking at this pre-overclocked package http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-002-OB&tool=3

And i was wondering would that be a worthwhile upgrade from what i already have thanks alot :)

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#2 Marfoo
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I would save your cash. The Q6600 at 3.0GHz is still a plenty fast processor, you won't see that big a difference. I would wait until even better tech is out in a year from now, or more. Then you can spend all your saved money on a really beastly system, and the system you have now should hold its own until then.
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#3 powerslide67
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no, anything less than a core i7 is not worth upgrading to

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#4 Marfoo
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no, anything less than a core i7 is not worth upgrading to

powerslide67
And even that is a costly upgrade for minimal gain.
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#5 cs45F
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[QUOTE="powerslide67"]

no, anything less than a core i7 is not worth upgrading to

Marfoo
And even that is a costly upgrade for minimal gain.

Yea unless you go from a P4 to an i7 like i did it aint worth it save your time and money
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#6 Timbury
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Thanks guys nice quick fast responses i had a feeling it wouldnt be worth my time but was just looking for some other opinions :)
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#7 Thedesolateone7
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How are you set up hard drive wise? For most people now it seems the hard drive is the issue. If you haven't already, consider moving to SSD, and if you can arrange very regular backing up to a standard external HDD, then you should probably arrange a couple of SSDs in a RAID 0 array (for absolute maximum performance, however it'll set you back a few hundred dollars).

The speed of accessing the drive in certain ways might jump about 50 times if you did this.

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#8 Timbury
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Thanks for that but i really dont have any inclination of going anywhere near SSD's to they are a alot cheaper.